Spa & Hot Tub Chalets

Courchevel chalets with pool and spa: what is actually inside

The word spa does not describe any particular equipment. A sauna at the end of a corridor and a heated pool you can swim lengths in carry the same label in a listing. If you pick a chalet because it says spa, you have not picked anything yet.

Here is what our catalogue says, checked on 27 October 2026. Of the 32 chalets we list in Courchevel 1850, 17 have an indoor pool. At our two top service levels it is 14 out of 18. And every one of those 17 also has spa equipment. In 1850, a chalet with a pool and no spa does not exist in our catalogue.

That changes the question. At this level the pool is not what separates one chalet from another. It is expected, and it is usually there. What separates them is smaller, and it is not what the listings put forward.

The word that misleads is pool, not spa

When a listing says spa, what you find on arrival is usually close to what you pictured. The problem is the other word.

In the middle and entry ranges of the resort, small marble basins are called pools. You get in, you sit, you get out. It is closer to a hot tub than to anything you can swim in. That is where the disappointment comes from, and it is not a top end problem. At the top end I have not had a client disappointed by a spa.

It also works the other way round, and that surprises people. Every chalet with a pool in 1850 comes with spa equipment. A spa does not always come with a pool. 15 of the chalets we list in 1850 have no pool, and several of those still have a full spa area. One has a hammam, a sauna, a jacuzzi, a massage room and a fitness room, and no pool anywhere in the building.

So the question is not whether there is a pool. It is how long it is, and whether anyone actually swims in it. If the pool is the part you really care about, the chalets with a proper indoor pool are listed separately.

What is usually missing is not the pool. It is the sauna

Inside the spa area you nearly always find a hammam, a jacuzzi and a massage room. The piece that goes missing is the sauna.

Counted on 27 October 2026, of the 17 chalets with an indoor pool we list in Courchevel 1850: 16 have a hammam, 14 have a massage room, and 10 have a sauna inside the chalet. 1 more lists a Norwegian sauna outside the building, which is not the same thing on a January evening and is worth checking rather than assuming.

That leaves 6 chalets among the best in the resort with a pool, a hammam and a massage room, and no sauna anywhere. Nobody reads that in a listing, because the listing says spa and stops there. If a sauna matters to you, that is the one line to check before anything else, by name, not under the word spa.

A massage room for two people is the other rare one. We know of one chalet that has it.

If you would rather have a treatment outside the chalet, the hotel spas in the resort take outside bookings when their diary allows.

Chalets with a hot tub in Courchevel

The property files name a hot tub in three ways: indoor jacuzzi, outdoor jacuzzi and Nordic bath. The first two say where the tub is. A Nordic bath names a kind of bath and does not say where it stands, so if sitting outside matters to you, ask for that line before you decide.

Counted on 27 October 2026, 38 of the 72 chalets we list record at least one of the three: 25 an indoor jacuzzi, 11 an outdoor jacuzzi and 5 a Nordic bath, some of them more than one. In Courchevel 1850 it is 22 of the 32 chalets. 15 apartments list one as well; for an apartment, the data does not say whether it is private or shared with the residence.

The catalogue data does not list leisure facilities for every property, so these figures describe what is recorded, not the total number that may exist. 7 of the 72 chalet files list no leisure facility at all.

In the experience of Sonny Ubertalli, who founded Courchevel.Rentals, clients use the hot tub more than the sauna. If he had to keep only one of the two, he would keep the hot tub. That is what he sees used, not a ranking: if the sauna is the part you care about, check it by name on the property file.

Every chalet whose file lists a hot tub is linked at the foot of this page, with its own page.

Water temperature, and what you need to arrange before you arrive

Nothing. The pools are heated and kept ready for the whole season. They are never cold on your first evening, and there is no call to make before you travel.

Pools sit at 27 to 28 degrees. Hot tubs at 37. If you want the water warmer, ask when you get there and it is raised.

Private spa or shared spa: it is in the contract, before you decide

People expect a trap here, and there is not one. Whether the spa is private to your chalet or shared with the rest of the residence is written in the rental contract. Nobody signs and finds out on arrival.

Two real cases, both fine once you know. In the centre of 1850 there is a residence whose spa serves all of its apartments. The pool is very large, with a dedicated spa area at the level of a five star hotel, and it is sometimes open to outside guests. That is stated. In Le Praz there is a spa area shared between two chalets, which is more delicate when the two families do not know each other.

The resort is moving that way. New residences with services are built with a common spa rather than a private one. That is not a step down. A shared pool of that size beats a private basin you cannot swim in. But it is a choice, and it should be made on purpose rather than found out.

Ask for that line in the contract before you decide. It is always there.

The real constraint is not the pool. It is the week

The hard part stopped being the equipment some time ago. The hard part is finding the chalet free.

What this means for the chalet you should pick

If you want a pool and a real spa, Courchevel 1850 is where the choice is, in price and in quality of the spa areas. That is simply where the density is.

Three things separate one chalet from another at that level, and the pool is not one of them.

The sauna. Check it by name. 10 of the 17 chalets with a pool in 1850 have one inside the building.

The size of the pool. Ask for the length in metres, or ask whether anyone swims lengths in it. That single question sorts a pool from a marble basin faster than any photograph.

Private or shared. It is in the contract. Ask for that line before you decide, not after.

And then the week, which is the thing that actually runs out.

Le Praz is the other honest answer, and it is new. That village used to be the one people skipped. On 27 October 2026 we list 13 chalets there, 6 of them have an indoor pool, and 5 of those have a sauna as well. Some very good properties with proper spa areas have come out there in the last few years.

Three chalets in 1850 that carry both

Perce Neige, Nogentil. 8 bedrooms, 15 guests. Indoor pool, hammam, indoor jacuzzi, massage room, hot tub, fitness room. No sauna, and that is exactly the check we were talking about.

Les Bruxellois, Plantret. 7 bedrooms, 12 guests plus 2 children. Indoor pool, sauna, hammam, massage room, hot tub, fitness room. 50 metres from the slopes.

Moon 1850, centre of 1850. 7 bedrooms, 12 guests plus 2 children. Indoor pool, sauna, hammam, massage room, hot tub, fitness room.

And the shared one, if the size of the pool matters more to you than owning it

Atmosphere, in the centre of 1850. One spa area and one very large pool, shared by the whole residence, at the level of a hotel spa. The apartments run from 2 to 4 bedrooms and there is a 7 bedroom penthouse. The sharing is written in the rental contract, and it is sometimes open to outside guests. For a family that wants to swim properly rather than own the water, it is the best pool on this list.